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vacuity

[va-kyoo-i-tee, vuh-] / væˈkju ɪ ti, və- /
NOUN
emptiness
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Antonyms
STRONG


NOUN
inanity
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As I wrote last year, Bankman-Fried exploited the vacuity of crypto by slathering it over with what sounded like profundities but were vacuous at their core.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 27, 2024

This moral vacuity provides the spectacle, as H.G.

From Salon Jan. 10, 2023

Suddaby’s analysis shows the vacuity of Bruen’s history-only test.

From Slate Oct. 7, 2022

“Spencer” seems to me the more coherent film, partly because the directness of Stewart’s performance stands out so poignantly against the moral vacuity and aesthetic constipation of her surroundings.

From New York Times Nov. 4, 2021

He reached for the doorknob that opened the way out into the unlit hall, then shrank back as he glimpsed the vacuity of the rest of the building.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

I removed the whole comb, consisting of common cells, from one of my best glass hives, and left that composed of males' cells alone: and to avoid vacuities, I supplied others of the same kind.

From New observations on the natural history of bees by Huber, François

The side of the head is occupied by four vacuities, separated by narrow bars of bone.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

It would prove a wise and pleasurable mode of employing some of the intervals of domestic engagement, and furnish both useful and interesting subjects of reflection to fill up the vacuities of thought.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Cox, Francis Augustus

The Solenhofen skulls which give any evidence of the palate are exposed in side view only, and the bones, imperfectly seen through the lateral vacuities, are displaced by crushing.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

My endeavour has been to fill in vacuities, to thread together a consistent and connected narrative, and thus, so far as I have been able, to present a true and lucid history.

From Overbeck by Atkinson, J. Beavington




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